{"id":1270,"date":"2023-12-03T07:51:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T07:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2023-12-03T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T08:16:59","slug":"the-aran-jumper-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2023\/12\/03\/the-aran-jumper-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; the Aran jumper crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"speechify-ipvczq\"><span class=\"speechify-1pieqac\">&#8230; the Aran jumper crowd<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>(Pat Carty, &#8216;The Sunday Times, 3rd December 2023)<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/shane-macgowan-the-man-who-made-irish-music-cool-gj0fvk505<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">(apologies, it&#8217;s probably behind a firewall)<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-root-20\"><\/span><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-20\">Rum Sodomy &amp;<\/span>\u00a0the Lash<\/i>\u00a0made it into the UK Top 20 in 1985 and it was likely the first time most of us heard of them. MacGowan\u2019s songwriting had taken a quantum leap and the band were also able to run at an old standard like\u00a0<i>Dirty Old Town<\/i>\u00a0and make it their own. It\u2019s no exaggeration to say the album made Irish music acceptable to many ears and rescued it from the Aran jumper crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the Aran jumper crowd &nbsp; (Pat Carty, &#8216;The Sunday Times, 3rd December 2023) https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/shane-macgowan-the-man-who-made-irish-music-cool-gj0fvk505 (apologies, it&#8217;s probably behind a firewall) &nbsp; Rum Sodomy &amp;\u00a0the Lash\u00a0made it into the UK &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[232,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcgowan-shane","category-uncategorized","entry entry-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}